論文

査読有り 国際誌
2019年12月9日

Structural brain abnormalities in children and adolescents with comorbid autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Translational psychiatry
  • Yoshifumi Mizuno
  • Kuriko Kagitani-Shimono
  • Minyoung Jung
  • Kai Makita
  • Shinichiro Takiguchi
  • Takashi X Fujisawa
  • Masaya Tachibana
  • Mariko Nakanishi
  • Ikuko Mohri
  • Masako Taniike
  • Akemi Tomoda
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終了ページ
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記述言語
英語
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研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1038/s41398-019-0679-z

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) share high rates of comorbidity, with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition now acknowledging the comorbid diagnosis of ASD and ADHD. Although structural abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia occur in both ASD and ADHD, no structural studies have focused exclusively on patients with comorbid ASD and ADHD. We thus aimed to clarify the structural features and developmental changes in patients with comorbid ASD and ADHD in a relatively large sample from two sites. Ninety-two patients were age-matched to 141 typically developing (TD) controls (age range: 5-16 years) and assessed for volumetric characteristics using structural magnetic resonance imaging (i.e. surface-based morphometry). While there were no significant differences in prefrontal cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia volumes, patients with ASD and ADHD exhibited significantly lower left postcentral gyrus volumes than TD controls. We observed significantly lower postcentral gyrus volumes exclusively in children and preadolescents, and not in adolescents. Our findings suggest that abnormal somatosensory, attributed to delayed maturation of the left postcentral gyrus, leads to the core symptoms experienced by patients with comorbid ASD and ADHD.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-019-0679-z
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31819038
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901569
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1038/s41398-019-0679-z
  • PubMed ID : 31819038
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC6901569

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